This comment is filed under the dumb things people say about cops and illegal activities. Look at #1 on this entry. No cop has to tell you a cop and if you really believe that then I’m sorry! Not true. That would be endangering the police officer. Lets say I was a drug dealer… dealing a LOT of drugs, and I had someone that I may think was a cop try and buy a lot of drugs from me. Really, do you think if I asked that person “are you a cop” they would answer me, “Oh YEA! You got me! I’m a police officer” because we all know what would happen next: that cop would “disappear”. So no.. that would never happen. I wish but no.

And to follow up the story as well, I could have taken the whole thing to court and just gotten it dismissed in a full trial but the deal I made was to dismiss the charges after doing 2 simple things. Why pay a lawyer and go through a full trial court when it can be taken care of in a simple plea bargain. It all ended well of course or I would have gone to trial, no doubt!

I worked extensively for them at one point and had access to every bit of their intel and every investigation they ever did. Really, all they care about is drugs and prostitution and gangs, and virtually everything they do is a complete waste of time and money. And of those three the emphasis on drugs takes about 95% of their energy.

There is some bad stuff in prostitution (basically the pimps and underage girls forced into it) but they are the ones creating most of that situation in the first place.

As for drugs, they get about half their funding through seizures, which I find to be quite a conflict of interest. If anything it should be used for charity purposes. Instead, due to the money, it’s drugs drugs drugs drugs drugs. Pretty much all that they focus on and it’s more than a little disheartening, really.

They do also do some ‘investigation’ into gangs but they do it in such a moronic way that it’s completely useless. Basically, they just interview people and ask if they’re in gangs but they don’t really use the info for anything useful, just to add on to any later conviction’s sentence as a rider.

I have worked in a lot of government related positions due to my field, and honestly all of them are pretty inefficient, but the basic problem with the police especially is not so much they are working inefficiently (though they absolutely are, and are very resistant to changing that, hard as I tried) but that they are pursuing goals that really make no sense when it comes to serving the community. There are some very smart people there (though in the minority), but if I had any sort of power I’d completely gut the whole shebang and eliminate half of the force.